Confession Number One:
The problem with boldly stating in December - on the Internet, no less - a plan to wax poetic about Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner for Valentine’s Day is the necessity to follow through come February.
But we promised a sonnet, and a sonnet we shall deliver.
We have a well-documented law crush on Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner. While some people think that public professions of law crushes are odd, we have found that we're not alone in our admiration for this particular jurist.
Every time we discuss Judge Posner with a fellow attorney, we hear the same thing: You love Judge Posner? I love him, too.
With that in mind, we're pandering to the Posner-philes and capping off the first week of 2012 with some of our favorite Posner-penned opinions of 2011.
The sweet siren song of infomercial infamy is too tempting for Kevin Trudeau.
After several multi-million dollar sanctions and bans from the infomercial airwaves, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals found last month that a district court had properly fined Trudeau $37.6 million for taking to the airwaves to promote The Weight Loss Cure "They" Don't Want You to Know About, with infomercials that the courts say included misrepresentations.
In upholding the fine, the Seventh Circuit noted that Trudeau had aired infomercials in violation court orders 32,000 times.
You may have noticed that we're slightly obsessed with Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner. He's our law crush because he always writes interesting opinions.
We're not naive: We know that behind every witty judge is a fleet of witty law clerks, but Judge Posner ultimately sets the tone and approves the opinions, so he's the object of our law crush. (Just wait until we start posting sonnets about him for Valentine's Day.)
With this law crush in mind, we admit that we did a double-take when reading a Posner opinion this week in which our favorite judge compared appellate attorney David McKeand to an ostrich.
